Evaluating a Scientific Presentation: The Virome
Anastasia Bendebury, Ph.D.
Evaluating a Scientific Presentation: The Virome
This week, we stumbled across a video that outlines a paradigm shift in the way that humans see viruses in the context of germ theory. The traditional explanation of disease is that it’s caused by microbial colonization of a healthy body. The immune system, then, is there to mount a defense against that pathogen. Since their discovery in the early 20th century, viruses have been included in this milieu as just another type of autonomous...